BACKGROUND Standard knee arthroscopy portals are frequently used to address retropatellar chondral pathology. Alternative portals may offer a safe and simple substitute, particularly when reaching the base of deep lesions is required. PURPOSE To describe and assess the safety of accessory retropatellar portals. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive laboratory study. METHODS An anatomic study was perfo...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of organizational factors on the adoption of interoperability technology for Indian portals. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study was conducted through a survey questionnaire from 300 portals of government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) in India. Data were also collected from portals of Indian com...

A web portal is a platform for information presentation and information exchange over the internet in a community of interest. In order to provide adequate facilities for communication and information sharing, web portals should utilize appropriate technologies. Current web technologies used in web portals present serious limitations regarding facilities for search, access, extraction, interpre...

BACKGROUND Use of electronic clinical trial portals has increased in recent years to assist with sponsor-investigator communication, safety reporting, and clinical trial management. Electronic portals can help reduce time and costs associated with processing paperwork and add security measures; however, there is a lack of information on clinical trial investigative staff's perceived challenges ...

This paper addresses new questions around media performance as a result of the rise of centralized content portals such as iTunes or MySpace. We first describe the rise of centralized content portals in different media industries, and discuss how these portals are creating a dominant position for themselves by using lock-in strategies. Then we describe the concept of media market performance, a...

Grid Portals, based on standard Web technologies, are increasingly used to provide user interfaces for Computational and Data Grids. However, such Grid Portals do not integrate cleanly with existing Grid security systems such as the Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI), due to lack of delegation capabilities in Web security mechanisms. We solve this problem using an online credentials repository ...